Baikal Mountains
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 View of the mountains of the Baikal Mountains in summer from Bolshiye Koty on the southwest shore of Lake Baikal |
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| Highest peak | Cherskogo ( 2588 m ) | |
| location | Irkutsk Oblast , Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) | |
| part of | South Siberian Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 2 ′ N , 108 ° 42 ′ E | |
The Baikal Mountains ( Russian Байкальский хребет , wiss. Transliteration Bajkal'skij chrebet ) is a mountain range (up to 2,588 meters) on the west bank of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia .
The Baikal Mountains, part of the South Siberian Mountains, which are only sparsely populated, are located in the Irkutsk Oblast and in the Republic of Buryatia . It borders in the north on the Central Siberian Mountains , in the northeast on the Stanowoj highlands , in the south on Lake Baikal and in the west over the valley of the Lena , which rises in these mountains, into the valley of the Angara . The mountain range of the Baikal Mountains extends over a length of 300 km.
literature
- A. Gorkin and others: Geografija Rossii: Enziklopeditscheski slowar. In: Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-85270-276-5 , p. 54. (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Baikal Mountains in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)